Re: gEDA-user: Wishes, bugs and misunderstandings

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi Peter and all,

On Sunday 19 November 2006 17:44, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 14:34 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote:
> > Hi Kai-Martin,
> > If nobody complains, I'll change 4 and 5:
> >
> > 1. move the filename to the title bar
> >   The title may be:
> >   "gschem: [FILENAME]"  like emacs does it, or
> >   "[FILENAME] - gschem" like most KDE programs use it.
>
> As gschem is a GTK+ (and gnome'ey) application, consider doing it the
> way the gnome HIG would suggest:
>
> "Filename - gschem"

commited to cvs in that way. 

> That way, wen the title bar text is condensed to view in the task
> list, you still see what file name is being worked on.
>
> I suspect we only want to show "name.sch", rather than
> "/path/name.sch" on the title bar, in case the path is long.

Agreed. But printing a length limited pathname would be possible to.

> > 2. put the grid settings to the status bar to the former filename
> > position.
> > The format may be something like:
> >   "Grid=[VisibleGridSize],[SnapGridSize]"
> >   "Grid=[SnapGridSize],[VisibleGridSize]"
> >   "grid([VisibleGridSize],[SnapGridSize])"
>
> Sounds good..

I've used:
  "Grid([SnapGridSize],[VisibleGridSize])"
  e.g.  "Grid(100, 1000)"

Regards
Werner
Note: You've to checkout and recompile libgeda and gschem to play with 
it.


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